Fun, Summer Reading in Concord

The top sellers at Gibson’s Bookstore on South Main Street in Concord last week were:

1. Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
2. Big Trees of New Hampshire, by Kevin Martin
3. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
4. Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian
5. Tie: The Martian, by Andy Weir, Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business, by Daniel Korschun and Grant Welker

Upcoming events at the store include:

• Poetry Society of NH: Jessica Purdy, Katherine Solomon, S Stephanie
• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, with Debby Irving
• The Other Side of Loss, with author Tom Vaughn
• Poetry Society of New Hampshire - Bob Demaree, Parker Towle
• Fantasy Mega-author R A Salvatore
• Author Kate Braestrup, Anchor and Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service
• The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company - A History of Enterprise on the Merrimack River